Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The sermon starts off with a threat, and
ends in a line of thought for those who are not converted so, I believe that the purpose of
this sermon was to convert people. The persuade people to be a puritan, to scare them
into being a follower of “God”.
“Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up: the strongest have no power to
resist Him, nor can any deliver out of His hands.”
This line basically makes the listener question if they are “strong” if they have
the ability to let God “take over”. It’s a smart move. He hooks people in. He knew
exactly what he was doing and he knew how to convey that to his audience.
“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are
innumerable places
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Because
the Puritans believed that if you weren’t one of “them” you would go to hell, this comes
up frequently in the sermon, as it is one of the main reasons for the sermon.
“It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity.”
It seems like even the people who have been converted will forever “suffer”
forever as well. Lots of bitter crying of poor souls and Gods Wrath and Anger. Basically
you will die if you don’t convert and even after you have you will still be in the “hands of
As of now, I think it would be quite different but still rely on the same strategies.
Back then people were truly scared. The population of people was smaller and America
wasn’t even close to stable yet. We were barely getting on our feet. People didn’t have as
wide of a perspective on the world as we do now. There was a dependence on God
because everyone was in a new World and what would happen if we “make God angry.”
Science was established nearly as much as it is now and the world was a